Hayashima Town

The local shrine hall, rebuilt in 1719.

Tsurusaki Shrine, main hall

Photo by あかしょうびん (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Bizen-Bitchu Border Marker Stone

After a lawsuit of about 100 years,a stone was set on the tidal flat's border.

A dispute over developing the tidal flat southeast of Maegata Shinden and Oki Shinden, at the edge of Kojima Bay, went to court between Bizen and Bitchu for about 100 years. In 1816 (Bunka 13) the shogunate made the existing dyke of the Bitchu side the border and ruled that the flat and sea south of it belonged to Bizen. The marker stone was set in 1821 (Bunsei 4), as reclamation work began.

A lawsuit of about 100 years (town board of education)
Shogunate ruling in 1816 (town board of education)
Marker stone set in 1821 (town board of education)

02 ／ Konpira Lanterns and Signposts

Along the road to Konpira in Sanuki,many lanterns and signposts guiding travelers remain.

Hayashima once lay on the Konpira Ōrai, the road to Kotohira-gū in Sanuki (now Kotohira, Kagawa). From the mid-Edo period it was busy with travelers, and many lanterns and signposts that guided them still remain. The town laid out Ukita-zutsumi Ichibaen and Hanamachi-kado as part of its Konpira Ōrai revitalization project.

Busy with travelers from the mid-Edo period (town board of education)
Many lanterns and signposts still remain (town board of education)
Parks laid out under the Konpira Ōrai revitalization project (town website)

03 ／ Benzaiten Harbor Site

The waterline of when Hayashima was still an islandis told by boulders in the shrine grounds.

Benzaiten was a hub of river traffic, alongside Funamoto. The boulders south of the Itsukushima Shrine grounds convey the waterline of when Hayashima was still an island. The grounds also keep a lantern inscribed "Haifunaka," said to have been donated in 1836 (Tenpō 7) by a boat captain from Sanuki.

A hub of river traffic, alongside Funamoto (town board of education)
The "Haifunaka" lantern is said to be a 1836 donation
Boulders featured in the town's tourist guide (September 2026)

Living here

Once an island in the sea, Hayashima covers 7.62 km².

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

At 7.62 km², it is the smallest municipality in the prefecture. As its name says, Hayashima was once one of the islands floating in the Seto Inland Sea, and the south of the town is reclaimed land, opened from the tidal flats of Kojima Bay starting with the Ukita Embankment of the Tenshō era. It lies between Okayama and Kurashiki.

People living here: 12,368people
Area: 7.62km²
Households: 4,522households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 10 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —3 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Hayashima Town in Japan34.601°N 133.828°E

Territory of Hayashima Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.1km

倉敷市, 岡山市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Hayashima Town isthis kind of town.

01Tsurusaki Shrine, the tutelary shrine of Hayashima, has 600 years of history. Its main hall, rebuilt in 1719 in irimoya style, is a town Important Cultural Property.
02The pair of stone lanterns on the east approach were donated in 1856 (Ansei 3) by Edo and Hayashima tatami-omote wholesalers, praying for the safe voyage of tatami-omote shipped to Edo.
03A 7.62 km² town between Okayama and Kurashiki, it has the site of the Togawa hatamoto family's jin'ya (a town Historic Site) and the Mizote Family Residence (10 buildings), a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hayashima Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗